Mary Bates, PhD

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Do Rats Know When They Don't Know?

Photo: Alexey Krasavin, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.Humans are great at metacognition: thinking about our thinking. We can evaluate our knowledge and realize when we know something and when we don't. Might rats have a similar ability? Read the whole story at Zoologic to learn how scientists can get rats to "tell" them if they know they don't know something.Do Rats Know When They Don't Know?